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Team identifies water-bearing minerals on asteroid Bennu

Mar 20, 2019 (SPX)

"Scientists are interested in the composition of Bennu because similar objects may have seeded the Earth with water and organic materials," said SwRI's Dr. Vict...

NASA says taking sample from asteroid harder than expected

Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)

The Osiris-Rex team said Tuesday that the surface of the asteroid, which measures 490 meters (1,600 feet) in diameter, was covered in stones and boulders. They ...

'Rubble pile' asteroid holds clues to Earth's water story

Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)

The Ryugu asteroid, around 300 million kilometres (185 million miles) from Earth, is estimated to be between 100 million and one billion years old. It appears t...

ESA's Hera asteroid mission borrows eyes of NASA's Dawn

Mar 19, 2019 (ESA)

Hera is currently the subject of detailed design work, ahead of being presented to Europe's space ministers at the Space19+ Ministerial Council at the end of th...

Turkish Meteorite Traced to Impact Crater on Vesta

Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)

"We visited Saricicek shortly after the fall," says Ozan Unsalan, lead author and planetary scientist from Ege University in Izmir, Turkey. "The villagers and s...

The powerful meteor that no one saw except satellites

Mar 19, 2019 (AFP)

From below, the only witnesses to this fiery event may have been the fish that inhabit the frigid waters between Russia and Alaska, as no human eye caught sight...

OSIRIS-REx images close in on Bennu's northern hemisphere

Mar 15, 2019 (SPX)

The wide-angle image (left), obtained by the spacecraft's MapCam camera, shows a 590-foot (180-meter) wide area with many rocks, including some large boulders, ...

What scientists found after sifting through dust in the Solar System

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

The dust consists of crushed-up remains from the formation of the solar system, some 4.6 billion years ago - rubble from asteroid collisions or crumbs from blaz...

Ancient comet impact triggered fires, climate change

Mar 13, 2019 (UPI)

Previously, researchers had only found evidence of the period of climatic change known as the Younger Dryas, or YDB, in the Northern Hemisphere. New findings, h...

Asteroid Bennu is rotating faster over time

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

Now, new research in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters shows Bennu is spinning faster over time - an observation that will help scientists understand...

Video showcases Hayabusa-2's asteroid touchdown

Mar 06, 2019 (UPI)

Last month, the probe skimmed the surface of the asteroid Ryugu. A review of the landing data by JAXA scientists confirmed the touchdown sequence happened as ex...

Asteroids are stronger, harder to destroy than previously thought

Mar 05, 2019 (SPX)

The findings, to be published in the March 15 print issue of Icarus, can aid in the creation of asteroid impact and deflection strategies, increase understandin...

Engineers published material standards for simulated asteroid surfaces

Mar 05, 2019 (UPI)

The new standards will help engineers prepare for off-world colony building by more precisely simulating extraterrestrial surfaces. "I'm firmly convinced that b...

Crater Hunters Score Meteoric Hole-in-One

Mar 05, 2019 (SPX)

The research was published in two separate papers in leading journal Meteoritics and Planetary Science. Lead author honours student Morgan Cox, from Curtin's Sc...

Touchdown: Japan probe Hayabusa2 lands on distant asteroid

Feb 22, 2019 (AFP)

Hayabusa2 touched down briefly on the Ryugu asteroid, fired a bullet into the surface to puff up dust for collection and blasted back to its holding position, s...

Close encounters: planning for extra Hera flyby

Feb 21, 2019 (ESA)

The opportunity arises because Hera will be flying out to match Didymos' 770-day orbit, which circles from less than 10 million km from Earth to out beyond Mars...

Rosetta's comet sculpted by stress

Feb 19, 2019 (ESA)

Small, icy comets with two distinct lobes seem to be commonplace in the Solar System, with one possible mode of formation a slow collision of two primordial obj...

Meteorite source in asteroid belt not a single debris field

Feb 18, 2019 (SPX)

The belt contains many debris fields created from former dwarf planets, or dwarf planets in the making, that collided long ago. These fragments, called asteroid...

From Chelyabinsk to Cuba: The Meteor Connection

Feb 14, 2019 (SPX)

Almost at the same time of the impact, a cruise ship was leaving the Havana harbor and on board, Rachel Cook, an American tourist and vlogger, was making a time...

Insulating crust kept cryomagma liquid for millions of years on nearby dwarf planet

Feb 13, 2019 (SPX)

The volcanoes on Ceres are cryovolcanoes, a type of volcano that forms on planetary bodies with icy shells and that moves salty water known as cryomagma from un...